Gann v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably INWOOD NORTH HOMEOWNERS'ASS'N v. Harris (1987), Lifemark Corp. v. Merritt (1983)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Woods v. Alvarado State Bank · Cullers v. James · Carey v. Looney · Whiteman v. Burkey · Houston & Great Northern R. R. v. Winter
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Homestead] ... includes as an indispensable part thereof the dwelling-house or family residence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a permanent fixture attached to the realty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Thomas · Norris v. W“If he occupies it with his family, it is their home. He may be compelled to move it from one lot to another as fast as legal process can oust him, still, though ambulatory, unsatisfactory, and in all its appointments mean; though it advertises the thriftless poverty of its proprietors, and is a caricature of the princely possibility of the exemption laws, it is the home of a family, and is embraced in the spirit and purpose, if not the letter, of the constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norris v. Thomas
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.